Meet our Team

With a nationally-recognized team, our Heart & Vascular Institute has experts that specialize in cardiovascular medicine, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, vascular medicine, vein treatments and cardiovascular imaging. We pioneer next-generation techniques and lead the way in diagnosing and treating heart and vascular disease. You can count on us for excellent care at locations throughout NH. 

NON & MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURES

Electrophysiology

Interventional Cardiology

Non-Invasive Testing

Recovery Time Reduced

When you come to the hospital for a procedure, you want your experience to be as uncomplicated as possible. That’s what Michael Ipavec found when he came to CMC for a cardiac catheterization.

For Heart Failure offer hope

“We offer hope to patients who previously may have had none.” These words are at the essence of our mission at CMC and drives the team at the New England Heart & Vascular Institute toward compassionate excellence, every day. Learn about the options Gary found by working with his team at NEHVI.

Firsts

First hospital in New Hampshire to:

• perform open heart surgery in 1986 (as a community hospital)
• offer a new heart failure treatment: the CardioMEMS™ HF System
• offer transcatheter aortic valve replacement—TAVR (as a community hospital)
• ​perform a completely percutaneous (no incisions) mitral valve replacement
• offer Myocardial Perfusion PET (Positron Emission Tomography)
• perfom a fenestrated endovascular aortic repair—FEVAR (in southern New Hampshire) 
• use the KONECT device in the repair of ascending aortic aneurysms
• offer TCAR: trans carotid artery revascularization (as a community hospital)

First hospital in New England to:

• implant WATCHMAN™ after its FDA Approval
• offer advanced 3-D mapping system (RHYTHMIA Mapping System) to better diagnose and treat all types of heart arrhythmias (in northern New England)
• perform a minimally- invasive surgery to treat patients with thoracic aortic disease using the Valiant Navion™ Stent Graft System
• offer the WATCHMAN FLX™ impant to AFib patients at risk for stroke who need an alternative to blood thinners.

• to implant the WATCHMAN™ Device for patients contraindicated to anticoagulation as part of the ASAP-TOO clinical trial
• use LUMIPOINT™ mapping software to aid and enhance cardiac ablation procedures 

Close to Home

By collaborating with hospitals throughout New Hampshire, patients have access to the latest cardiovascular care. Procedures are done at CMC, with diagnostic and follow-up care at their local community hospital. See below for New England Heart & Vascular Institute locations throughout NH.